On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 12:10 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Seth Nickell"> > > > What I don't want is to include polypaudio in such a way that people write > > directly to it (the same way as libgnome etc currently directly use > > esound). As Colin proposed, requiring GNOME modules to use gstreamer for > > sound (assuming that nothing needs direct/fast audio at the moment) will > > allow us latitude to experiment with lower level solutions to software > > mixing without tangling our apps up in a new sound API. > > Why have every app linking to a complete multimedia subsystem, just to make > ding sounds? Because it lets us avoid coding to a specific, nonportable API. > Solitare in Windows doesn't use DirectShow to make ding sounds. Directly, probably not. But indirectly via a wrapper API? Sounds reasonable to me.
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